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. Sports and outdoors 16 External links, 2 Geography Bay of Campeche which is an isthmian embayment extending from the western edge of Campeche Bank to the offshore regions just east of the port of Veracruz, 11.1 Roadways People in the service of Spain Contents Beaumont Place. 1990 1,630,553 2.2% 7.3 Languages By 1860 Houston had emerged as a commercial and railroad hub for the export of cotton. Railroad spurs from the Texas inland converged in Houston where they met rail lines to the ports of Galveston and Beaumont During the American Civil War Houston served as a headquarters for General John Magruder who used the city as an organization point for the Battle of Galveston. After the Civil War Houston businessmen initiated efforts to widen the city's extensive system of bayous so the city could accept more commerce between Downtown and the nearby port of Galveston by 1890 Houston was the railroad center of Texas, Position Name Party Notwithstanding the concentration of elite medical centers in the state the Commonwealth Fund ranks the Texas healthcare system the third worst in the nation. Texas ranks close to last in access to healthcare quality of care avoidable hospital spending and equity among various groups. Causes of the state's poor rankings include politics a high poverty rate and the highest rate of illegal immigration in the nation in May 2006 Texas initiated the program "code red" in response to the report the state had 25.1 percent of the population without health insurance the largest proportion in the nation. Research shows that adolescents who see alcohol use in advertisements television shows and movies are more likely to start drinking alcohol at a younger age Drinking at a young age is correlated with long-term alcohol abuse. Big Tex presided over every Texas State Fair since 1952 until it was destroyed by fire in 2012 As of 2004 the state had 3.5 million foreign-born residents (15.6 percent of the state population) of which an estimated 1.2 million are illegal immigrants Texas from 2000 to 2006 had the fastest growing illegal immigration rate in the nation in 2010 illegal immigrants constituted an estimated 6.0 percent of the population This was the fifth highest percentage of any state in the country in 2015 the population of illegal immigrants living in Texas was around 800,000. General aviation airports for fixed-wing aircraft outside of Houston include:, In the science-fiction movie 2010: the Year We Make Contact the 1984 sequel to 2001: a Space Odyssey Dr Heywood Floyd (Roy Scheider) and the spaceship Discovery's designer Walter Curnow (John Lithgow) discuss their favorite sports stadium hot dogs; Curnow says he likes the hot dogs at the Astrodome while Floyd prefers those at Yankee Stadium. . Some of the most destructive hurricanes in U.S history have impacted Texas a hurricane in 1875 killed about 400 people in Indianola followed by another hurricane in 1886 that destroyed the town These events allowed Galveston to take over as the chief port city the 1900 Galveston hurricane subsequently devastated that city killing about 8,000 people or possibly as many as 12,000 This makes it the deadliest natural disaster in U.S history in 2017 Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Rockport as a Category 4 Hurricane causing significant damage there the storm stalled over land for a very long time allowing it to drop unprecedented amounts of rain over the Greater Houston area and surrounding counties the result was widespread and catastrophic flooding that inundated hundreds of thousands of homes Harvey ultimately became the costliest hurricane worldwide causing an estimated $198.6 billion in damage surpassing the cost of Hurricane Katrina, These forces were capable of quickly moving long distances allowing a quick return home after battle Wars were mainly between clans expelling intruders on land these wars combined some European methods with techniques from Muslim bandits in Al-Andalus These tactics consisted of small groups who attempted to catch their opponents by surprise through an ambush. North America In 2013 Texas passed legislation that requires employees of child-care facilities to have certain vaccinations unless the employee objects for reasons of conscience. Texas has allowed for parents to exempt their children from vaccines by citing medical reasons since 1972 Further Texas has allowed for parents to exempt their children from vaccines on the basis of religious belief since 2003.

. Designed by architect Joseph Finger (who also designed Houston's City Hall) the Houston Municipal Airport Terminal was constructed in 1940 to meet Houston's growing role as a center for air commerce in the 1930s the terminal building is an example of classic art deco airport architecture from the 1940s the terminal served as the primary commercial air terminal for Houston until 1954 the terminal located at William P Hobby Airport houses the 1940 Air Terminal Museum which currently exhibits several collections focusing on Houston's aviation history, Houston Texas Business Directory A white flag with a five-pointed-star over the outline of a small cannon with the words Come and Take it below the left corner of the flag has been torn off and sewn back on. Voters rejected efforts to have separate residential and commercial land-use districts in 1948 1962 and 1993 Consequently rather than a single central business district as the center of the city's employment multiple districts have grown throughout the city in addition to Downtown which include Uptown the Texas Medical Center Midtown Greenway Plaza Memorial City the Energy Corridor Westchase and Greenspoint, Pearland Historically Houston has been a center of Protestant Christianity being part of the Bible Belt. Other Christian groups including Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Christianity and non-Christian religions did not grow for much of the city's history because immigration was predominantly from Western Europe (which at the time was dominated by Western Christianity and favored by the quotas in federal immigration law) the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 removed the quotas allowing for the growth of other religions! The land comprising Mexican Texas between the Red Sabine and Nueces Rivers is shaded yellow the land between this boundary and the Rio Grande on the south and the Arkansas River on the north is shaded green and marked as "claimed territory". The sedimentary layers underneath Houston ultimately extend down some 60,000 feet (18,000 m) with the oldest beds deposited during the Cretaceous. Between 30,000 feet (9,100 m) and 40,000 feet (12,000 m) below the surface is a layer of salt the primary source of salt domes which dot the metropolitan area. Since salt is more buoyant than other sediments it rises to the surface creating domes and anticlines and causing subsidence due to its removal from its original strata. These structures manage to capture oil and gas as it percolates through the subsurface; Pierce Junction is a notable example of a heavily drilled salt dome oil field in Houston.